It was the first by the Rays in their 13 seasons, leaving the New York Mets and San Diego Padres as the lone franchises without one.

It was the fifth this season after no-hitters by Colorado’s Ubaldo Jimenez and Arizona’s Edwin Jackson and the perfect games of Philadelphia’s Roy Halladay and Oakland’s Dallas Braden. The modern record for one season is seven in 1991.

Tropicana Field did not have a no-hitter in its first 1,006 games. But it now has two in 11 games with Jackson’s coming there June 25.

Detroit had not been no-hit since Randy Johnson of the Seattle Mariners turned the trick on June 2, 1990, at the Kingdome.

Tampa Bay has been involved in three no-hitters (Jackson and Braden against it), and it’s only the third time that has happened in the majors and the first time in 93 years. The 1917 St. Louis Browns were no-hit by the Chicago White Sox on April 14 and then threw no-hitters against the White Sox on May 5 and May 6.

The 31 days between no-hitters in the same park is the closest that has happened in one place since the Cincinnati Reds had one thrown by Jim Maloney against the Houston Astros on April 30, 1969, at Crosley Field and Houston’s Don Wilson returned the favor in the same series May 1,

The last American League ballpark to have two no-hitters in one season was Detroit’s Tiger Stadium in 1973, when Kansas City’s Steve Busby and California’s Nolan Ryan turned the trick.

The longest a Tampa Bay pitcher had no-hit a team was 7 2/3 innings by Dewon Brazelton in 2004 against Florida and Tony Saunders in 1999 against Baltimore. Garza had gone six innings without a hit twice before.

Garza did not allow a hit in his last four innings pitched at Tropicana on July 10 against Cleveland and has a 13-inning hitless streak at home.

The last no-hitter Detroit was involved in was pitched by Justin Verlander of the Tigers against Milwaukee on June 12, 2007, at Comerica Park in Detroit.